Nimbus: NI7852

Amelita Galli-Curci Vol.2

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Amelita Galli-Curci Vol.2

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NI7852

Amelita Galli-Curci Vol.2

with Beniamino Gigli, Louise Homer, Ezio Pinza, Giuseppe de Luca, Angelo Bada, Tito Schipa

1 LAKMÉ, Delibes, Bell Song 4.26

Rec: 5 March 1917 Matrix: C-18595 Victor Cat: 74510

2 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Donizetti, Il dolce suono ... Spargi d'amaro pianto 7.42

Rec: 1 February 1917/21 September 1922 Matrix: C-18587/B-26595 Victor Cat: 74509/66125

Flute obbligato, Clement Barone

3 RIGOLETTO, Verdi, Caro nome 4.44

Rec: 2 February 1917 Matrix: C-18596 Victor Cat: 74499

4 LA PERLE DU BRÉSIL, David, Charmant oiseau 4.10

Rec: 14 September 1917 Matrix: C-20664 Victor Cat: 74552 Flute obbligato, Clement Barone

5 LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES, Bizet, Comme autrefois 4.50

Rec: 9 September 1921 Matrix: C-25553 Victor Cat: 74718

6 Proch, Air and variations 4.30

Rec: 13 September 1917 Matrix: C-20663 Victor Cat: 74557 Flute obbligato, Clement Barone

7 IL TROVATORE, Verdi, Come d'aurato sogno ... Tacea la notte 4.13

Rec: 12 September 1923 Matrix: C-28469 HMV Cat: DB-813

8 IL TROVATORE, Verdi, Timor di me? ... D'amor sull' ali rosee 4.29

Rec: 16 September 1924 Matrix: C-30297 HMV Cat: DB-813

9 LE COQ D'OR, Rimsky-Korsakov, Hymne au soleil 3.02

Rec: 8 September 1921 Matrix: B-25549 Victor Cat: 66069

10 SADKO, Rimsky-Korsakov, Song of India 3.00

Rec: 21 September 1922 Matrix: B-26596 Victor Cat: 66136

11 HAMLET, Thomas, Mad Scene 8.34

Rec: 28 December 1925 Matrix: CVE-34232/34233 Victor Cat: 6562

12 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Donizetti, Chi mi frena? 4.28

with Beniamino Gigli, Louise Homer, Ezio Pinza,

Giuseppe de Luca, Angelo Bada

Rec: 12 December 1927 Matrix: CVE-41232 Victor Cat: 10012

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Giulio Setti conductor

13 RIGOLETTO, Verdi, Bella figlia dell' amore 4.18

with Beniamino Gigli, Louise Homer, Giuseppe de Luca

Rec: 12 December 1927 Matrix: CVE-41233 Victor Cat: 10012

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Giulio Setti conductor

14 LA TRAVIATA, Verdi, Un dì felice 3.29

with Tito Schipa (tenor)

Rec: 6 September 1928 Matrix: BVE-30907 Victor Cat: 1754

15 LA TRAVIATA, Verdi, Parigi o cara 3.43

with Tito Schipa (tenor)

Rec: 7 September 1928 Matrix: BVE-30908 Victor Cat: 1754

16 PHILÉMON ET BAUCIS, Gounod, O, riante nature 4.53

Rec: 28 March 1930 Matrix: CVE-58128 Victor Cat: 7658 Flute obbligato, Clement Barone

Amelita Galli-Curci

"Nimbus are what is hedgingly called 'controversial'. That is, for every youngster who suddenly sits up and says "I never knew these old records could sound like that", there is an expert who can scarcely conceal the pity and incredulity provoked when someone such as myself admits to frequently playing them with pleasure. Three purely subjective facts arise out of this present listening: on two occasions, like the newcomer instanced above, I sat up during the long session, with surprise at a sudden vividness - this was once when switching to Nimbus to compare the first of the Trovatore arias, and then at the start of the same disc with the sound of Lakmé's Bell song - and the other fact is that I have never enjoyed the Hamlet record so much as now on Nimbus, or thought it so fine a performance, the sound having previously seemed boxy and over-bright with the hardness of those early electricals." John B. Steane, Gramophone

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